{"id":12814,"date":"2023-07-08T20:15:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T20:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=12814"},"modified":"2023-07-09T11:49:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T11:49:43","slug":"cultures-motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/motivation\/cultures-motivation","title":{"rendered":"Culture\u2019s Motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Culture is a complex set of \u2018living patterns\u2019 that unifies\/binds a group of people. This group can be an entire society or any concrete organization. Being motivational means that it has its own volition \u2015 a challenging situation.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Please read first: Motivation at the Center of Life<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Culture \u2015 motivation \u2015 life?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several insightful philosophers see cultures as living organisms \u2015 thus, with motivation at the center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surely, a culture is a structure. Also, there is a striving for consolidation involved. Whether or not calling it \u2018life,\u2019 culture has some of its essential features, with the urge to consolidate at its core. Without this urge, it would succumb to cultural chaos \u2015 making it difficult for people to live in a coherent group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This urge may be seen as the culture\u2019s motivation \u2015 positive or negative to the members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cultural versus individual<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While groups of individuals need culture, culture \u2013 as a structure \u2013 needs individuals. Even more. It needs individuals who conform to the culture\u2019s motivation. Culture doesn\u2019t exist without people. Therefore, it needs to bind people. It does so for its own sake and only secondarily for the members\u2019 sake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, conformity may run counter to individuals\u2019 motivations. As it happens, at the end of this spectrum, culture may be suffocating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizational<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An organization can be a commercial firm, an occupational entity, a church or religion, or any other enduring group of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being part of society, organizations are subject to society\u2019s culture. On top of that, each organization has its cultural specificities. In a way, it has its own motivation that can grow more or less independently. Therefore, this needs to be taken care of \u2015 especially since an implicit negative culture may result in tons of absenteeism and presenteeism (being present but not efficiently contributing). It can make or break the organization from the inside out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making things more challenging to pinpoint and remedy, an organization\u2019s culture is pretty ineffable. The credo and mission may be written down somewhere \u2015 and forgotten explicitly or implicitly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that doesn\u2019t make the cultural influence less powerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do cultures do this?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Culture binds people by using their motivation \u2015 in a bad case, by hijacking it towards its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further into the bad, people feel drained and meaningless as cogs in a giant wheel, rats in a rat race, overworked and undervalued. Feels familiar?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then comes leisure.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making things worse, leisure \u2013 including vacations \u2013 is also organized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leisure culture seems bent on \u2018giving the working people a well-earned relief.\u2019 It does, but not straightforwardly. It is motivated primarily to bind people, for instance, by heightening the sense that vacations (\u2018doing countries\u2019) are necessary to feel well. The term \u2018tourist attraction\u2019 is no good sign. What are tourists doing there? What is the effect after coming home?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recurring vacations may eventually be as stressful as the rest of the year \u2015 burning motivation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, individuals are at risk of burnout.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, we are presently in a cultural situation where society readily leads to the burnout of many<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, this is eventually also bad for the culture \u2014 kind of stupid, but that is another cultural feature. It is meant to survive, not be as intelligent as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need profound changes \u2014 not in any way easy!<\/p>\n

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